Wild Geese Creative
A practice of participatory ritual, embodied facilitation, and ecological making.
Wild Geese Creative is the studio practice of Ciara O’Connor Walsh, a multidisciplinary artist, performance-maker, and facilitator working at the edge of form and feeling, where ecology meets creative impulse.Her work is rooted in neurodivergent perception and embodied knowledge. It moves through performance, sound, text, and participatory ritual; refuses linearity, embraces sensory entanglement, and honors the recursive and patterned logics of autistic language.Wild Geese is not an organisation but a container for practice, connection, research, sensory ritual, care and collective reimagining.
Current Works in Progress
Wild Geese Collective
A slow-growing creative initiative in rural Ireland where young people, storytellers, artists, and neurodivergent thinkers gather to make meaning together.The Collective blends creative facilitation, ecological storytelling, and sensory exploration across workshops, rituals, and seasonal labs. It centres tenderness, imagination, and collaborative authorship. Piloting in 2025.
Trickster Podcast
Trickster Podcast is a long term production and creative collaboration with Trickster (formerly Monkeyshine Theatre Company). The podcast explores the role of story in shaping perception, culture, and consciousness; through the voices of artists, thinkers, and tellers who dwell in the liminal. The series includes sound design, poetic narration, and multi-voiced dialogues on ecology, ritual, and making art in the anthroposcene.
The Flight Between Worlds
In development: A ritual-cabaret. A story in compost. A performance of becoming.The Flight Between Worlds explores the sensory architecture of neurodivergent perception. Through poetic text, immersive sound, and movement-based storytelling, the work offers a meditation on the ecologies of pattern, overwhelm, sensory stimulation, and rest.
Selected Performance and Production Work
Ciara is an experienced theatre producer, and her background in performance spans from acting to performing experimental cabaret and directing youth-devised theatre. These works laid the foundation for her current practice: embodied, participatory, and experimental.
Cabaret
Ciara worked as producer and founding member of Angels of the Odd Productions and Siamese Scream, producing and performing in alternative cabaret shows and nights internationally including at London and Amsterdam burlesque festivals. She has performed and produced tents and experiential shows at Electric Picnic, Bram Stoker Festival, and more.
Theatre and Facilitation
Ciara has worked as producer for a number of shows for the Gonzo Theatre Company including The Birthday Man at Dublin Fringe Festival, Bram Stoker Festival, and more. She is also an experienced youth theatre facilitator (YTI trained) and producer of two youth -devised plays in Thomastown, Co Kilkenny. She also works as a wellbeing facilitator for children and young people in schools and at events nationwide.
Audio Production: selected works
Where is My Mind
A podcast about how we can better look after our heads and our hearts in the head-melty chaos of the modern world. Season one and two produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O'Connor Walsh. British Podcast Award winners (Gold).
The Eighth
The Eighth by Ciara O'Connor Walsh is a podcast documentary series documenting the referendum on the Eighth Amendment to the constitution of Ireland.
Love + Radio
Ciara worked as producer and production assistant / executive on a number of episodes of this iconic cult podcast by Nick Van Der Kolk
Wild Geese Creative in Action
Wild Geese Creative is a multidisciplinary studio practice led by Ciara O’Connor Walsh, working at the intersection of neurodivergence, ecology, and performance.Informed by a late autism diagnosis and two decades of facilitation, Ciara’s work explores how non-normative ways of sensing and processing can become aesthetic strategies, ecological practices, and collective rituals.The work is sensory, participatory, and shaped by systems thinking, feminist pedagogy, and kinship-based worldviews. It invites rupture and rest. It privileges pattern over plot. It moves toward a poetics of accommodation; not as limitation, but as a foundation for cultural reimagining.Current projects include The Flight Between Worlds, a performance exploring autistic perception through immersive sound and movement; Trickster Podcast, an audio series blending story, ecology, and our relationship with the more than human world; and Wild Geese Collective, a place-based youth initiative centring neurodivergent authorship and ecological kinship.